I've seen various posts and times about people recommending the deletion of the (or changing the name of) the Administrator account to give crackers and hackers a harder time at system penetration through the login. However, I would like to discuss this much further. I can see how changing the default Administrator may buy you time while they search for the admin's new login name, but what also understand is that the deletion or change of the administrator account can have negative impacts upon the system. I see it as an "unknown" variable, in which you won't ever really know if functionality is limited behind the screens on certain programs, because they require a check for the term Administrator on the login.

recovery console (on XP based systems) will prove to be incapable of functioning because it requires the "Administrator". Without it, you can't repair disk sectors, master boot records, drive functionality, and so forth and so forth. You cripple one of the strongest recovery tools in the XP distro.

This applies to certain other version of Windows as well as some programs running on them. So, while it may buy you a few days for them to discover the newer login name, is it work the risk of breaking compatability with software, recovery methods, and general "I don't know for fact or certainty that nothing unexpected will happen on my system due to the name change of a primary OS login, so it's safer to not do it".

Thoughts?